patriot

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The fortunes of the human family among the animals thus come to concern reason and to be the background of progress Within humanity the next sphere of interest for a patriot is the race from which he is descended, with its traditional languages and religions.

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun One who loves, supports, and defends one's country.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 141 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French patriote, from Old French, compatriot, from Late Latin patriōta, from Greek patriōtēs, from patrios, of one's fathers, from patēr, patr-, father; see pəter- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from French patriote = Spanish Portuguese patriota = Italian patriotto = D. G. Swedish Danish patriot, one who loves his country, from Middle Latin patriota, from Greek πατριώτης, a fellow-countryman, from πατριά, a race (cf. πάτριος, from the forefathers, hereditary), from πατήρ = L. pater = English father: see father.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈpeɪtrɪət/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a week.

Recently looked up

UNIVERSITY · irony · recent · tortuosity · mastodon

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

ultimatum · pew · deadpool · sad panda · nom nom nom